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Speaker 1: pledges billions more in weapons for Ukraine as the war

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Speaker 1: on the strategy for Ukraine and how long this could last.

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Speaker 1: us for the hour, and we start things off. President

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Speaker 1: book To Risk it all, Admiral, welcome back to the program.

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Speaker 1: Could be with you, Joe. Now that we've reached the

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Speaker 1: To Risk It All, Nine Conflicts and the Crucible of Decision.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for being with us on Bloomberg Sound On. President

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Speaker 1: having me. Let's start with what this does. Ten thousand

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Speaker 1: You know what I mean? I feel like this is

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Speaker 1: parties do it when they're in power. I just congratulate

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Speaker 1: on Bloomberg dot com, you saw it with Nancy Cook

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Speaker 1: talk to us. Thanks for having me to We've learned

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Speaker 1: a couple of things. You know. Look, the President says,

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Speaker 1: by the way, that the deficit reduction from his administration

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Speaker 1: more than covers all of this. But you heard the

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Speaker 1: response from Nancy. They're like, well, the Trump administration did

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Speaker 1: the tax cut since and that's exactly what the reaction

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Speaker 1: has been. Well from the President himself, he was trying

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Speaker 1: to get ahead of this in the speech while announcing

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Speaker 1: the program using the authority Congress granted the Department of Education.

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Speaker 1: We will forgive. I will never apologize ever helping Americans, working, working,

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Speaker 1: American's mental class, especially not to the same folks who

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Speaker 1: the White House can claim a win here to say

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Speaker 1: even the statement later from the n double a CP

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Speaker 1: We'll see how the panel feels about it. The politics

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Speaker 1: US could be moving on this as we head for

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Speaker 1: the mid terms. Genie Chanzano and Rick Davis will be

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Speaker 1: with us as we also look back on a big

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Speaker 1: primary night New York and Florida. Big night for Nancy Pelosi.

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Speaker 1: I keep hearing, but what about Joe Biden. It's the

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Speaker 1: fastest hour in politics. I'm Joe Matthew and Washington. Thanks

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Speaker 1: for being with us. We'll check traffic and markets on

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Speaker 1: the way. This is Bloomberg. You're listening to Bloomberg. You

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Speaker 1: sound on with Joe Matthew on Bloomberg Radio. President Biden

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Speaker 1: makes good on the campaign pledge to relieve student loan debt,

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Speaker 1: the forgiveness plan ten thousand for most twenty dollars and

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Speaker 1: loans for some who received hell grants. By the way,

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Speaker 1: we haven't even mentioned at least I haven't. If you

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Speaker 1: can forgive me the extension. This is the final extension,

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Speaker 1: the President announcing four more months on the moratorium on

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Speaker 1: student loan repayments. So that gets you through the year.

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Speaker 1: And this is as you may well expect. Well, we've

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Speaker 1: already told you this not playing well on the other

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Speaker 1: side of the aisle. You're gonna satisfy that obligation. You do,

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Speaker 1: you follow through, you work hard to do that. Then

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, other people don't have to changing

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Speaker 1: the rules of the game in the middle of the game.

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Speaker 1: Just as not fair. Congressman Dan new House, Republican from Washington,

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Speaker 1: kind of crystallizing what many in the Republican Party think

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Speaker 1: about this. It's a fairness issue, they say, just as

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Speaker 1: well as an economic one. Let's reassemble the panel, Rick

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Speaker 1: Davis and Jeannie Chanzano or whether Genie, you've got your

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Speaker 1: classroom gonna be full of students next week. I assume

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Speaker 1: that this is going to play very well with them.

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Speaker 1: But do they vote? Uh? They do? Um? We I

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Speaker 1: But you know, I think for me, I have to

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Speaker 1: say that, you know, this is critically important because of

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Speaker 1: course these students are carrying the largest single debt of

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Speaker 1: for the Biden administration is, yes, relief on this, that

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Speaker 1: addressing the really problematic issue of college affordability, because to me,

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Speaker 1: what's happening here is, you know, something of an upstream parable.

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Speaker 1: They are just addressing what we're seeing as the remnants

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Speaker 1: has been needed to be addressed for many, many decades.

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Speaker 1: The actual cost of the damn thing, the the actual cost.

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Speaker 1: And you know, and Republicans are right, I know a

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Speaker 1: people who chose not to go, who went to more

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Speaker 1: affordable colleges because they couldn't pay back loans from more

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Speaker 1: expensive colleges. People who didn't go and are working in

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Speaker 1: paying taxes to pay for this. They have a right

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Speaker 1: to be frustrated by this. And that's why not just

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Speaker 1: the Biden of administration, but Congress as a whole should

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Speaker 1: address once and for all the issue of college affordability,

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Speaker 1: not just deal with the remnants of a problem without

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Speaker 1: addressing the root cause. There's the forgiveness component here, Rick,

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Speaker 1: and we saw that coming, but I was kind of

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Speaker 1: blown away. And I think we established with Nancy Cook

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Speaker 1: a little earlier that you can flip this headline. The

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Speaker 1: cap on loan payments going forward of five percent of

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Speaker 1: of someone's discretionary income is a huge deal. That that

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Speaker 1: impacts any future student loan borrower going forward. How does

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Speaker 1: that play? Is that something that people can Republicans say

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Speaker 1: that that's a bad idea. Well, sure, I think what

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Speaker 1: they're gonna say is that all of this adds to

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Speaker 1: the national debt um It just took a year for

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Speaker 1: He just added five hundred billion dollars including the extension

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Speaker 1: has just been wiped out. And he's line that this

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Speaker 1: is more than covered by deficit reduction is not genuine. No,

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Speaker 1: I mean, and and by the way, why have deficit

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Speaker 1: reduction if you're just gonna pilot right back on the

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Speaker 1: confounding most budget watchers is that that, first of all,

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Speaker 1: this should have been done through an appropriation process, right,

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Speaker 1: Joe Biden. The president is not allowed to make appropriations. Uh,

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Speaker 1: it's the job of Congress. And so we talked about

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Speaker 1: this last night. Rick. Let's say Donald Trump wins the presidency,

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Speaker 1: it's twenty four he can rescind this executive action and

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Speaker 1: the cap specifically on his first day in office. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but he can't. He can't claw back the five dollars

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Speaker 1: worth of deficit that just been added back, because wouldn't

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Speaker 1: that be something to Jennie you know, Hey, sorry, you

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Speaker 1: gotta pay it back. We're gonna put this back on

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Speaker 1: your credit card. Yeah. I don't think anybody could claw

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Speaker 1: it back. But I think an even bigger issue is

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Speaker 1: it again. And so you know, it's really really hard

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Speaker 1: to pull this back at all because people borrowing tomorrow. Yes,

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Speaker 1: the cap is there, but they're going to be saying, hey,

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Speaker 1: am I going to be forgiven that first ten thousand dollars. Again,

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Speaker 1: the issue here is the problem of affordability of higher

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Speaker 1: education in this country. It should be a public good,

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Speaker 1: just like health care. It should not be only for

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Speaker 1: forgives a loan. That's the critical issue that needs to

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Speaker 1: be addressed. And this is all icing around the cake

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Speaker 1: at this point. Genie Chanzano and Rick Davis make up

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Speaker 1: our signature panel here on Bloomberg Sound On. We got

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Speaker 1: through another primary night, and I have to ask you

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Speaker 1: both about it. We're not going to dig through all

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Speaker 1: these races because it's been a bit of time, but

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Speaker 1: there you know that we talked so much about this

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Speaker 1: race in Manhattan between Jerry Nadler and Carolin Maloney. She

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Speaker 1: lost by a lot. This is a long time Democratic

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Speaker 1: leader on Capitol Hill, two former allies going at it.

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Speaker 1: But while we consider that race, I want to bring

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Speaker 1: you back to the debate that they had when President

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Speaker 1: Biden came up. Because I was told all day today

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Speaker 1: a great night for Nancy Pelosi. Nobody said Joe Biden.

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Speaker 1: This was the New York One debate with Nadler Maloney

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Speaker 1: and Pateel. Should President Biden run again in Mr Nadler

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Speaker 1: too early to say, doesn't serve the purpose of Democratic

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Speaker 1: Party too to deal with that until after the mid terms.

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Speaker 1: I don't believe he's running for re election. Okay. That

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Speaker 1: prompted a whole round of stories, forcing her to apologize

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Speaker 1: the next day on CNN. Mr President, I apologize. I

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Speaker 1: want you to run. I happen to thank you won't

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Speaker 1: be running, but when you run, or if you run,

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Speaker 1: I will be there. You have deserved it. You are

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Speaker 1: a great president. Rick. It just makes me wonder what role,

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Speaker 1: if any Joe Biden is going to play in these

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Speaker 1: mid terms. Now that we're pretty much getting through the

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Speaker 1: primary season, you see what the general is gonna look like.

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Speaker 1: Is he gonna play a role in it? Yeah? His Uh,

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Speaker 1: certainly he'll play a role in the general. I think

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Speaker 1: his numbers are starting to improve a little bit. I

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Speaker 1: think you're gonna be able to keep him out of

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Speaker 1: some of these districts. But I think he has minded

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Speaker 1: his p's and queues, knowing that he was incredibly unpopular

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Speaker 1: in a lot of these districts and and and stayed

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Speaker 1: out of a lot of these primaries. So um, he'll

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Speaker 1: be unleashed. He'll want to see the Democratic tape go

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Speaker 1: over the House and ensure that he has his role

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Speaker 1: in that. And I suspect they'll have him in states

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Speaker 1: campaigning for Senate candidates if they think his numbers warrant it. Um.

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Speaker 1: You know, his popularity has been ephemeral. It's gone up

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Speaker 1: and down. Uh, he's having a good month, but I

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Speaker 1: right back in the box because all those people who

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Speaker 1: liked what he was doing on deficit reduction are going

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Speaker 1: to be grossly disappointed today. You might remember, Genie, when

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Speaker 1: we had John Fetterman on the lieutenant governor Pennsylvania is

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Speaker 1: running against Dr Roz for Senate. Now, we asked him,

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Speaker 1: you know how about Joe Biden. He said, I would

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Speaker 1: be proud to have Joe Biden campaigned for me here

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Speaker 1: in Pennsylvania. So it depends on the race. It depends

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Speaker 1: on the state. Yeah, it does. And we shouldn't forget that.

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Speaker 1: Poor Caroline mcloni. She had a bad night last night,

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Speaker 1: but she did that not once, but she did it twice.

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Speaker 1: She also did it with the New York Times editorial board,

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Speaker 1: and so, you know, I don't think it's ever good

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Speaker 1: does you no good, particularly when you're facing a primary.

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Speaker 1: And it made little sense from the beginning for her

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Speaker 1: And she is now, of course talking about issues of sexism,

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Speaker 1: which are themselves real, and so I think we're going

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Speaker 1: to hear a lot more from her on that going forward.

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Speaker 1: You know, you probably saw the back and forth between

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Speaker 1: of amazing the fact that this even took place. This

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Speaker 1: brings us back to Wagner's rights and the crew. Detay thought,

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Speaker 1: there's a grocery shopping. I'm at weg nurse and my

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Speaker 1: wife was some vegetables. Dr Ozzie went there shopping. He's

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Speaker 1: getting the vegetables for the so called crewe to day,

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Speaker 1: they hit him for that. John Fetterman says, we call

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Speaker 1: that a veggie platter in Pennsylvania. Uh, no, tequila and

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Speaker 1: crete and uh, then it's not Wagner's, it's Wegman's. Veggie

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Speaker 1: trey was the term. So Dr Oz doubles down. Did

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Speaker 1: you see the statement that that he said, if if

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Speaker 1: John Fetterman had ever eaten a vegetable in his life,

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Speaker 1: then maybe he would have had a Maybe he would

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Speaker 1: in the position of having to lie about it constantly.

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Speaker 1: The Fetterman campaign was quick to right back and call

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Speaker 1: him out for insensitivity. Uh is this fair game, Rick,

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Speaker 1: when you're talking about a candidate's health on the campaign trail. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and and what causes strokes. So I thought that was insensitive.

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Speaker 1: I was really enjoying the crewe tote battle though, I

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Speaker 1: But I think one of the things Dr Os has

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Speaker 1: this tat on on memes, he's gonna lose that race. Uh.

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Speaker 1: He needs to be talking about inflation, He needs to

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Speaker 1: be talking about, you know, what are the bread and

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Speaker 1: and Fetterman stroke and things like that are not going

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Speaker 1: to get in votes. And so this is a sign

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Speaker 1: the big picture here. Jennie Fetterman's replies statement said, I

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Speaker 1: for Dr oz Oh, it certainly is. I mean you

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Speaker 1: can just feel him struggling to catch up and struggling

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Speaker 1: to get, you know, to kind of play around with

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Speaker 1: It wasn't just the Crew to te it was also

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Speaker 1: the number of houses. And he's been sort of trapped

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Speaker 1: by this. And to Rick's point, what he should be

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Speaker 1: talking about is something that does appeal to voters in Pennsylvania.

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Speaker 1: That is inflation, that is gas prices, that is Joe Biden.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you can go through the list he's gotten.

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Speaker 1: They've gotten him off track and he needs to get

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